My Quick Takes:
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre: Memoir
- Language 🤐 occasional strong language
- Spice ❤️🔥 none
- Content Considerations 🤔 violence, torture, themes of war, war crimes, abuse, adult themes
Unbroken left me speechless. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it on the heels of The Boys in the Boat. With the same fabulous narrator (Edward Herrmann, aka Richard Gilmore) it felt like a continuation of the storyline.
Where The Boys on the Boat focuses on the Olympics and what it took for the team to get there, Unbroken starts with the same Olympic Games and focuses on Louis Zamperini, an American distance runner, and his time as a Japanese POW during World War II.
Hillenbrand details the numerous prisoner of war camps where Louis was held and the inhumane conditions they were forced to endure under Japanese capture. Even so, the redemptive arc left my jaw on the floor. Add this one to the top of your non-fiction reads.
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